Culture of the Christian East

A large region bounded from the north by the Caucasus range, from the west by the Kura and Araks river basins, from the south by desert lands, which is now southern Azerbaijan, in the middle of the 1st millennium it was called Arran, or Albania.

The Iranian world met Christianity quite early. It happened on the territory of the Sassanian state – perhaps there were contacts of Iranians with Christians before, but we know practically nothing about them.

The last section of the Great Silk Road, which connected Sogdia in Central Asia and Beijing, is an interesting part of the Christian East, where the Iranian languages, Syriac, Turkic, Mongolian, and the Chinese, or Old Chinese, interacted.

What territories did the Christian Arabs live in? How did they contribute to the spread of ancient culture in the Arab environment? What problems in the study of Arab-Christian culture are the most relevant?

What is the origin of the term “Arab”? What are the historical testimonies of pre-Islamic Christian Arabs? What are the main problems of studying pre-Islamic Christianity among the Arabs of Syria, Mesopotamia and South Arabia?

What place does Aramaic take in the development of the Syrian civilization? How did Syrian writers transmit Greek knowledge to Arab culture? What is one of the main problems in the study of the Syrian civilization?